Quoth Og Mandino

"You can never win when you wear the ugly cloak of self-pity, and the sour sound of whining will certainly frighten away any opportunity for success. Never again. There is a better way.”

My Authorial Debut

The Thrilling Sequel

"The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms" by N.K. Jemisin

When I was at World Fantasy this past October, I attended a couple of readings that blew me away. One was a reading by Saladin Ahmed, from his yet-to-be-agented-or-sold novel (I can’t recall the title, alas). The fact that I couldn’t look forward to a specific date on which I could pick up the [...]

“Soulless” by Gail Carriger

At World Fantasy, there is never any shortage of wonderful new books. This year, there were a couple of “it” books which seemed to have everyone talking: N.K. Jemisin’s “The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms” (excitement which was certainly fueled by N.K.’s excellent reading of a cliffhanger chapter) and “Soulless“, by Gail Carriger. Sadly, N.K. Jemisin’s [...]